"He said yesterday that he's going to ask [Baldick] to do it, and my attitude is that if you can't get your former campaign manager and political director to do what you'd like, then it's going to be hard to get the insurance companies and drug companies to do what you want."

"The fact is this is somebody who worked for John Edwards, for the last who knows how many years, who's a good friend and colleague of Edwards, who's now running a 527 that is running ads on behalf of John Edwards. [Laugh] You're telling me has no influence over him? That's not true. If [Obama communications director] Robert Gibbs started running a 527 and I called Robert Gibbs and said stop running ads on my behalf are you suggesting I would have no influence over Robert Gibbs?"

"We can't argue on the one hand that we're going to be reformers unless the things that need to be reformed advantage us -- and then we're less the fighter on behalf of reforms," he said, referring to Edwards, who refers to himself as a "fighter."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1 207/Obama_mocks_Edwards_on_527.html